Escape artist emerges after nearly two days buried alive.

WINNIPEG – A globe-trotting escape artist from Manitoba was back
among the living on Halloween, after clawing his way out of the self-imposed
grave he had been buried in for nearly two days.

Dean Gunnarson clambered up to fresh air at 1:36 p.m. local time Sunday from
the steel coffin, which had been lowered six feet underground and buried under
three tonnes of dirt around 7 p.m. on Friday.

“It’s been a long couple of days. It hasn’t been easy. It’s been cold down
here, dark, damp and claustrophobic,” he told a crowd of about 50 people, on
hand to witness him emerge from the grave.

Gunnarson’s goal – which he had called the “escape of his lifetime” – was
to exit his tiny prison on the exact date and time of Harry Houdini’s Halloween
demise, at 1:26 p.m. on Oct. 31, 1926.